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. >> mr. stewart. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this is bogus. mr. gordon brown. >> perhaps we ought to do is listen to the facts. if we do not act now on what we now know, friends around the world who admire our liberty is -- >> i am sorry to interrupt the right honorable gentleman. earlier today, it was said, a new tone, a new mood. >> order. the young lady will be quiet. there will be interventions. members will observe basic courtesies and listen quietly and with respect to speakers. that is the end of it. if you are not prepared to do so, leave the chamber. >> mr. speaker, i say if we do not act now as the house of commons, knowing what we now know, friends around the world who admire our liberties as a country will now ask what kind of country we have become. crime has been committed against innocent members of the public. no satisfaction is given, and even with your name as a likely victim, they will never mind telling you not taking action. no actions from the successor. the responsibility for two in greece. what is called southern investigat
. >> mr. stewart. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this is bogus. mr. gordon brown. >> perhaps we ought to do is listen to the facts. if we do not act now on what we now know, friends around the world who admire our liberty is -- >> i am sorry to interrupt the right honorable gentleman. earlier today, it was said, a new tone, a new mood. >> order. the young lady will be quiet. there will be interventions. members will observe basic courtesies and listen quietly and with...
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i'll tell mr. brown how things work in the real world. y on, yo, college is the place for you. it's my number one goal. ♪ students like me, who take these ap math and science classes and have these opportunities, this is where the american dream lies. when i write that book, you know, i plan to dedicate it to my school. ♪ those hopes and dreams that you have, you know, they're within reach. and i'm living proof. >>> just a little refresher course. when john boehner and his right wing buddies took over the house leadership in january. don't you remember, one of the first orders of business was to read the united states constitution on the house floor. i hope they were listening to part of the 14th amendment dealing with the national debt. ironically read by congressman steve israel of new york. >> the validity of the public debt of the united states including debts incurred for payment of pensions shall not be questioned. but neither the united states nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in eight of the insurrection or rebellion in the united sta
i'll tell mr. brown how things work in the real world. y on, yo, college is the place for you. it's my number one goal. ♪ students like me, who take these ap math and science classes and have these opportunities, this is where the american dream lies. when i write that book, you know, i plan to dedicate it to my school. ♪ those hopes and dreams that you have, you know, they're within reach. and i'm living proof. >>> just a little refresher course. when john boehner and his right...
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mr. president, the conrad budget proves that we need not attack medicare and social security to deal with our deficit. his budget is living proof that there is reason to attack medicare and social security to get through our deficit situations. that attack on medicare and social security is a willful and unnecessary act by the republicans. well rhode islanders in increasing numbers have been writing to me urging me to continue fighting to preserve these retirement programs, to preserve this infrastructure of american freedom. time is running short and americans are counting on their elected representatives to do the right thing. well, it is time to do the right thing. let me close by reading a piece from an editorial in the "economist" magazine." the economist "magazine is a very conservative publication. and it is very much in the favor of free markets. i would say by and large it is a republican journal. here is what "the economist" says about the situation we are in now. "the sticking
mr. president, the conrad budget proves that we need not attack medicare and social security to deal with our deficit. his budget is living proof that there is reason to attack medicare and social security to get through our deficit situations. that attack on medicare and social security is a willful and unnecessary act by the republicans. well rhode islanders in increasing numbers have been writing to me urging me to continue fighting to preserve these retirement programs, to preserve this...
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mr. brown: i'm sorry. madam president? thank you. sorry i didn't address the chair. senator boxer, i was on the phones today listening to people call in from ohio, taking calls, and i heard so many people very afraid of the boehner legislation and what might come out of a further compromise. senator reid, as you said, has offered a good many cuts and -- and, you know, doing -- doing this in a way that's bipartisan. are you hearing that in your state, that there's a real fear that they might -- that -- that the republicans in the house certainly are insisting on social security and medicare cuts and what that would mean to people in your state? mrs. boxer: well, absolutely. we, as un, are the largest state in the -- we, as you know, are the largest state in the union. 38 million people. we have more people on social security than any other state, medicare. and they know what the stakes are. they're smart. and if you look at the polls, 70% of the people say talks millionaires and billionaires, they should pay their fair share. spare social security, medicare, education
mr. brown: i'm sorry. madam president? thank you. sorry i didn't address the chair. senator boxer, i was on the phones today listening to people call in from ohio, taking calls, and i heard so many people very afraid of the boehner legislation and what might come out of a further compromise. senator reid, as you said, has offered a good many cuts and -- and, you know, doing -- doing this in a way that's bipartisan. are you hearing that in your state, that there's a real fear that they might --...
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he said, "mr. mccullough, i've never been asked these questions." you have to be sure you don't let appearances lead you to wrong conclusions about people and about where things are. >> brown: it's interesting to me that, having looked and written so much about the political development of our country, here you are focusing on the cultural development. was that a conscious thing for you that you wanted to do? >> yes, very much so. i felt for a very long time that history is more than politics and the military and social issues. yes, it is politics and the military and social issues, but it's also art and music and architecture and ideas and science and medicine. it's the works, it's human. and i think the more that we teach history that way, the more we think about history that way, the more we realize that's obviously true. there are some ancient civilizations, all we know about them is their art. so what may stand down through the next several hundred years may be more george gershwin than it is some senator of the moment. >> brown: i understand t
he said, "mr. mccullough, i've never been asked these questions." you have to be sure you don't let appearances lead you to wrong conclusions about people and about where things are. >> brown: it's interesting to me that, having looked and written so much about the political development of our country, here you are focusing on the cultural development. was that a conscious thing for you that you wanted to do? >> yes, very much so. i felt for a very long time that history...
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brown mr. broun: my amendment would revert the funding back to 2008 levels. this is asking the smithsonian to tighten their belts. mr. chairman, this country is broke. we have spent all the money in our bank and then some. we have to prioritize where we can afford to spend money where we simply cannot afford to. asking the smithsonian to scale back their spending to levels of 2008 is more than reasonable. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: i rise to claim time in opposition to this amendment. charkte the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. moran: the smithsonian institution is the world's leading museum complex. people from all over the world come to washington oftentimes with the principal intent of seeing the significant seasonian, but it is invarybly part of their trip to our nation's capital and something that every member of the legislative branch should be very proud of. in fact, we should
brown mr. broun: my amendment would revert the funding back to 2008 levels. this is asking the smithsonian to tighten their belts. mr. chairman, this country is broke. we have spent all the money in our bank and then some. we have to prioritize where we can afford to spend money where we simply cannot afford to. asking the smithsonian to scale back their spending to levels of 2008 is more than reasonable. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman...
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mr. brown: thank you. i want to talk also about another issue where we should have just done a clean extension as we have done hundreds -- i'm sorry, not hundreds, dozens of times in this country. the past three decades alone, we have avoided default by addressing the debt limit 38 times. 34 of those were with republican presidents. that's almost 90% of the time we have raise the debt ceiling, more precisely avoided default. it's been under republican presidents. a lot of us didn't like it. we maybe made a public statement saying we didn't like their fiscal policy, but we never stood in the way, we never tried to take hostage, take the government hostage or each other hostage by saying almost like children if i don't get my way then i'm going to block this and i'm going to stop -- i'm going to potentially throw our financial system and our economy into turmoil. what kind of behavior is that for adults? and then when i hear speaker boehner and some of his radical kind of cheerleaders on the far political ri
mr. brown: thank you. i want to talk also about another issue where we should have just done a clean extension as we have done hundreds -- i'm sorry, not hundreds, dozens of times in this country. the past three decades alone, we have avoided default by addressing the debt limit 38 times. 34 of those were with republican presidents. that's almost 90% of the time we have raise the debt ceiling, more precisely avoided default. it's been under republican presidents. a lot of us didn't like it. we...
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. >> suarez: okay, mr. turbi, we'll have to stop it there but we will be following this story. thank you for joining us. >> all right. thanks very much to you. >> brown: finally tonight, the second of two reports about college classes for convicts. last night, "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman profiled a unique program at a new york state prison. tonight: what happens to some of those felons when they look for a job. part of paul's ongoing reporting: "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: a homecoming of sorts for anthony cardenales, at woodbourne prison in upstate new york. >> this is the first time that i'm looking at you from this side. >> reporter: when released two years ago at age 34, he'd spent half his life locked up, with many of the guys in this room. and the guys who guard them. >> it felt really good walking in this door today and these guys looking at me and their eyes opening up there, you know? ( applause ) >> reporter: you can understand the eye-opening. when cardenales left this place two years ago, his job prospects seemed, well sub-optima
. >> suarez: okay, mr. turbi, we'll have to stop it there but we will be following this story. thank you for joining us. >> all right. thanks very much to you. >> brown: finally tonight, the second of two reports about college classes for convicts. last night, "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman profiled a unique program at a new york state prison. tonight: what happens to some of those felons when they look for a job. part of paul's ongoing reporting:...
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guest: as mr. cameron was saying, she has been friends not just with him, but previous prime minister gordon brown, and probably tony blair, too. his point was "it is not just me." she slept over at the official country residence one time when gordon brown was prime minister. but david cameron is prime minister now and he is very close to her. in the light of what we now know about what "news of the world closed what journalists were up to, people in britain are having a heart -- what "news of the world" journalists were up to, people in britain are having a hard time believing him. he believed nothing much was going on at "news of the world" or you was just one or two journalists. if you ask, what does this mean for britain, that is probably the main impact, that trust is being broken in politics at the highest level and in newspaper journalism. i think that is a problem, and i cannot see at the moment how the trust is going to be fixed. host: next call for alex spillius of "the daily telegraph,"
guest: as mr. cameron was saying, she has been friends not just with him, but previous prime minister gordon brown, and probably tony blair, too. his point was "it is not just me." she slept over at the official country residence one time when gordon brown was prime minister. but david cameron is prime minister now and he is very close to her. in the light of what we now know about what "news of the world closed what journalists were up to, people in britain are having a heart --...
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. >> we know that she is about 18 years old, that she called mr. wu's congressional office back in the state, sounded very distraught on the phone and said that she was the subject of an unwanted sexual encounter with him. >> california governor jerry brown has signed the dream act into law. this bill makes students who are illegal immigrants eligible for instate college tuition, which can be as much as five times cheaper than out of state tuition. those students must agree to apply for legal immigration status. >>> well, there are no answers from an autopsy on what killed five-time grammy award winner amy winehouse. the coroner hopes to know more when lab results come back. that will happen in two to four weeks. winehouse was found in her london apartment over the weekend. her battles with drugs and alcohol were well documented in her struggle, that is, at hln's dr. drew says she may have won that battle if she had taken more time away from the limelight. >> what they need to do is drop out, not worry about their job and focus on their recovery. m
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brown: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the ranking member, mr. rahall, for his leadership. you know, i am very upset that for the first time after 21 extensions that the f.a.a. was shut down friday night. jeopardizing $2.5 billion in construction projects, 87,000 american construction jobs and furloughing at least 3,6,000 f.a.a. aviation -- 3,600 f.a.a. aviation engineers. this is a sad time for the committee on transportation. we have always worked together in a bipartisan way to make sure that we move america and keep people working. this is america, and i want to say i fully believe that it's possible to build the keystone pipeline in a way that improves our access to crude oil and put thousands of people to work while protecting citizens from hazardous spills. but we have to hold the industry's feet to the fire and make sure they take every possible precaution to build this pipeline. the pipeline and hazardous safety materials administration must ensure full oversight in every step of the way in developing this pipeline and must ensure that i
brown: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the ranking member, mr. rahall, for his leadership. you know, i am very upset that for the first time after 21 extensions that the f.a.a. was shut down friday night. jeopardizing $2.5 billion in construction projects, 87,000 american construction jobs and furloughing at least 3,6,000 f.a.a. aviation -- 3,600 f.a.a. aviation engineers. this is a sad time for the committee on transportation. we have always worked together in a bipartisan way to...
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, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today i would like to extend my sincere appreciation to paul callahan, a dedicated staff member in the office of the second congressional district of south carolina. after eight years in washington, paul will be departing the office at the end of this month to return home to south carolina. paul has been a faithful public servant for the people of south carolina's second congressional district since november, 2003. he has served in a variety of capacities ranging from scheduler to legislative core spendent to senior legislative assistant. paul truly fulfills the role of dedicated hill staffer. most recently, paul's pour foalio has con-- portfolio has consisted of housing, telecommunications and foreign affairs. his hard work has been a valuable asset in the office for the citizens of south carolina. it is with sincere gratitude i'd like to thank paul for his expertise and enthusiasm. he will be missed in the office, and i wish you well. i wish you, jenny, charlot
, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today i would like to extend my sincere appreciation to paul callahan, a dedicated staff member in the office of the second congressional district of south carolina. after eight years in washington, paul will be departing the office at the end of this month to return home to south carolina. paul has been a faithful public servant for the people of south carolina's second congressional district since november, 2003. he has served in a variety of capacities ranging...